Applications are invited for a Ph.D. studentship in the Plant Developmental Genetics laboratory led by Dr. Frank Wellmer based in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin (http://www.tcd.ie/Genetics/wellmer-2/).

Fluid motion is vital to the function of healthy plants. For example, transpiration causes water to be drawn upwards from root to leaf through the conducting elements of the xylem, and pressure-driven flow carries the products of photosynthesis through the phloem.